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...attempts to control the flow of information and thereby define the nature of public debate. At various times, the President has proposed strict rules on contact between officials and reporters, used the FBI to track down embarrassing leaks, and moved to reduce the scope of the Freedom of Information Act and to impose lifetime Government censorship on tens of thousands of officials who have had access to classified information...
...jubilant Navasky hailed the ruling as "a victory for the public." But some legal experts contend that the decision's scope might not be as broad as Kaufman's resounding language suggests. The reigning scholar of copyright law, Melville Nimmer of U.C.L.A. law school, said the "essential element" in the case is that "the underlying material is factual." Paraphrasing of fictional material would still violate copyright laws. Columbia Law Professor Benno Schmidt also did not quarrel with the decision but added, "The appropriate principles of copyright protection got bent out of shape by the tremendous newsworthiness...
...WOULD BE UNFAIR to place any one of William Trevor's novels alongside his collected stories on the reviewer's rostrum; for there is a breadth of scope and achievement in this collection, a complex structure of "development," on compassing many near-perfect stories, that is bound to overshadow the specific range of a single novel. Fools of Fortune, while it is engrossing stuff like virtually everything Trevor writes, takes on too great a task in too little space. ranging over the years 1918 to 1983, including a story of doomed love between an Irishman and his English cousin...
Harvard's official response to its survey on harassment, while evidencing concern, distorts the scope and trivializes the gravity of sexual harassment on campus. The statistics are shocking: 10 percent of female junior faculty report pressure for sexual relations and, after four years at Harvard, 48 percent of Senior undergraduate women report having experienced some form of sexual harassment...
...asset; all the action takes place in the one room. Bruhl's study, and the actors move well on the dining hall stage. Lowell House's choice of Deathtrap was a good one. The local production surpasses the Hollywood version which had trouble trying to enlarge the scope of the action. The only slight drawback is that because dead people tend to lie on the floor, people sitting in the back sometimes have trouble seeing what they are doing...